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Going back quite a few years, there was a columnist (mostly noted for having a Windows logo tattoo) who kept stating that people who got regular blue screens with Windows 3.1/3.11 were simply not using their computers properly and he personally never saw any. Oddly, after Windows 95 was released and he switched, in one column, he commented that he happy to no longer see multiple blue screens every day.
Regards,
David
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Maybe the guy didn't have a color monitor
There is a certain sawmill in Prince George who were still using Windows 3.1 on an antique pre Pentium desktop 5 years ago to download sorts to the sorters and other things. Apparently nothing else was as reliable
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I had issues a few years back when reading ebooks on my computer. That was when I discovered epubcheck/FlightCrew and Sigil. They made my reading life a lot easier.
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I have had an occasional issue with books on my Kobo, but nothing I couldn't fix pretty quickly. Nothing that would brick it, just display problems such as triple line spacing and large paragraph gaps, opening at the end of the book and immediately closing it, ends of lines being chopped off etc. Some could be fixed temporarily by changing the font, but changing the font every other page or so is a bit of a distraction.
These same books appear to work well on the Sonys and my mother's Kindle, the Sony Reader software, the Kindle App, Aldiko and even the dreaded Moon+ reader.
Perhaps epubcheck would point out numerous errors but many have been recently published library books and I don't remove the DRM from library books. Did a couple just to see if it could be done, but doesn't seem right somehow, so I just don't. Only issue I have had on my PC or tablets other readers is just a butt ugly book to begin with. Early Project Gutenberg for example. Kobo may be the only reader displaying books exactly as the publisher intended, but if this is the case why aren't the publishers protesting about all the other readers and apps and peek inside the book and even their own website previews displaying them in a pleasant and readable manner. I just can't get my head around the concept.
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Out of curiosity, are you getting error logs after the freezes? They would show as stack_xx.log files. The disappearing books for instance sounds like the Kobo reset before updating the database and that generally generates an error log.
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The book didn't exactly disappear, it just was removed from the main page and marked as unread. I did not check for error logs and probably won't tonight, but I will. Maybe not till my day off but will get back to you.
As to resetting before updating the database, hasn't reset for a while, but could have been on an earlier reset. I'm pretty care ful about ejecting the Kobos, and generally eject in calibre and from the computer menu, and then power off the computer before actually unplugging. A bit bizarre, but I only plug my Kobo into the USB port when I want to do something that requires it. The farther away from the computer I keep it the better it behaves
Thank you for your courteous replies and input. Hopefully I will stop ranting now. Just thrown into the flight or fight mode, or the pillage and burn mode at the implication that those who brick their devices are all sub moronic nincompoops.
Helen